US 11,590,524 B2 · Cable robot for coating procedures

Abstract

The present invention refers to an automated painting system on oil ships, being executed by a mobile platform and an oscillating arm. The assembly only works due to the control of cables, winders and wheels. This approach is aimed at painting large vertical walls. The painting deck suspension uses four cables, each connected to a pivot on the mobile platform, and two fixed pivots plus four winders. The winders contain a servo motor in a synchronous serial network. The cables are made of reduced-weight polyethylene. Each cable is connected exclusively to one winder. Suspension is achieved with the aid of two adapted cranes and initialization through the addition of a giraffe-type crane.

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Dependent claims

A cable robot used in a coating process, the cable robot comprising:

two fixed pivots;
four movable pivots;
four cables;
four winders;
a process effectuator or mobile platform for carrying a coating or paint applicator arm and oscillating mechanism assembly,
two cranes;
and
an electronic control unit,
wherein the four cables comprise a reduced-weight polyethylene material, with the four cables connected two-by-two to each of the fixed pivots that are at deck height on a ship, and the four cables suspend the mobile platform connected to the moveable pivots.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/418,566Filed 26 Dec 2019

Priority

BR 102018077363-128 Dec 2018

Published

US 2022/0072575 A110 Mar 2022

Granted

28 Feb 2023

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

B05B 13/005
Machines or plants for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces of objects or other work by spraying, not covered by groups…
B05B 13/0431
The spray heads being moved during spraying operation: with spray heads moved by robots or articulated arms, e.g. for applying liquid or other…
B05B 13/0426
The spray heads being moved during spraying operation: with spray heads moved along a closed path
B05B 15/60
Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories: arrangements for mounting, supporting or holding spraying…

Cable robot for coating procedures

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